Chapter 656: Rushing to the Heart
The Dongying fleet led by Shaoyan Mingguang was also really playing with his life, because he also knew that this battle could only be won, not defeated!
Otherwise, all the follow-up plans designated by the higher authorities will be frustrated, and from then on, they will be suppressed by the Rus' for five or even ten years, and they will have to cede all the northern seas.
This is only a direct loss, and the indirect loss is even more unpredictable!
He used his command talent to the extreme, and changed four or five tactics in a row in one day before finally gaining the upper hand, relying on his advantage to start a sleepless night battle with the Rus', and finally completely defeated the main fleet of the Rus' at the time!
Just when he led the fleet to pursue the remnants of the enemy, Xiao Chen and Li Shi also arrived 'in time', directly cutting off the retreat of the remnants of the Russ fleet of more than a dozen warships, and the Rus commander was desperate and had to surrender.
At this point, the Shunfeng naval battle was completely over, and the Great Zhou Combined Fleet won a complete victory with the result of annihilating the Rus fleet!
The Rus' warships that had come from the north to reinforce them turned around and returned home when they heard the news, and the Rus' Empress was shocked by this, she couldn't believe that her three fleets in Shunfeng Harbor would be wiped out!
In her opinion, neither the Dongying Naval Division led by Shaoyan Mingguang nor the Great Zhou Naval Division of Li Shi were far from being the opponents of the Ross Ironclad Fleet, but they were so powerful together......
She also had to reconsider the situation in the Far East.
After three days and three nights of bloody battles, Qin Gang finally captured Shunfeng City...... In fact, it was not his command that was the first to attack Shunfeng City, but the thousand soldiers led by Lin Yue, who launched an attack from the northern gate.
Although Lin Yue only had a thousand people, he brought catapults, siege vehicles, ballistas, and ten hot air balloons.
You Qin Gang don't use it, I'm always okay with Lin Yue, right?
Although he carried so much baggage, the road was unimpeded, because Wei Yuntian specially sent a thousand heavy cavalry to help him clear the road.
Seeing such a powerful heavy armored cavalry, the Rus people didn't dare to send troops out to stop it, and Qin Gang's offensive at the West City Gate was fierce, and they couldn't draw troops.
The city gates can only be closed tightly and guarded strictly.
But it didn't hold on.
After Lin Yuebing approached the city, he immediately swung the ballista away, first defended it, and then immediately ordered the catapult to attack, he was not as vicious as Qin Gang, the catapult's target was only the city wall and the city gate, but there was no extended shooting.
After destroying the city wall to a certain extent, the armored amphibious siege vehicles began to exert their might, and the muskets and crossbows of the Rus' people could not destroy these steel monsters at all, and they could only watch as a dozen siege vehicles forcibly advanced directly to the edge of the city wall.
At the top of the siege engine were the musketeers, who were about as level as the city walls, so the two sides were almost face-to-face!
The musketeers relied on the cover of the iron plate to shoot harassing at the soldiers at the head of the city, while the siege soldiers in iron armor all hid in them and waited quietly for Lin Yue's attack order.
It wasn't until ten hot air balloons took advantage of the night to rise into the air and quietly flew to the city, dropping the smoke created by Shangguan Qiji's own hands, making the Rus soldiers at the head of the city sneeze and their eyes were hard to break, that Lin Yue ordered someone to blow the horn of attack......
After taking the north city gate at a very small price, Lin Yue did not stop, and personally led his troops to rush to the west city gate along the city wall.
The Rus soldiers at the West City Gate had long been exhausted by Qin Gang's non-stop attacks, and when they saw Lin Yue's fresh army coming like a tide, they immediately gave up resistance and erected a white flag......
This made Qin Gang extremely depressed, because he felt that he was about to capture the city, but he was robbed of the first credit by Lin Yue, Cheng Biting Jin, who was killed halfway!
When he saw Lin Yue, his face was also extremely ugly, not only did he not say a word of comfort, but he even reprimanded Lin Yue with strong words.
Lin Yue is no longer in his charge now, so naturally he will not get used to him, and immediately ridiculed him, arguing with reason, this matter was originally Lin Yue's reason, he was eloquent, and Qin Gang, who was stunned in a few words, opened his mouth and stammered, his face was pale.
"General Qin, I know what you mean, but I'm afraid that my Yanyun officers and soldiers will rob you of the first credit for capturing Shunfeng City! Hehe, then I'll give you this head credit, I, Lin Yue, are only here for these exhausted brothers, but I don't care about any merit and reward! "Lin Yue really doesn't care.
"Our boss sent me here just to assist General Qin, and now that the task is complete, then I will not accompany you!" After that, he directly led all the people of the headquarters to withdraw from Shunfeng City and return to Golden Beach.
said that he had no intention of competing with you Qin Gang at all, but it depends on you Qin Gang who is embarrassed to take this credit?
Unless your Qin Gang's face is thicker than this Shunfeng city wall, otherwise in front of everyone's eyes, I don't believe that you can talk flatteringly and want to cover up!
Qin Gang has hardly closed his eyes and rested in the past few days of attacking the city, his body has been extremely overdrawn, and he has been seriously injured before, but now he sees 20,000 under his command, only more than 3,000 people remain, and he was so angry by Lin Yue, he was depressed and angry in his heart, and under the rush of fire, his eyes turned black, and a mouthful of blood spurted out......
After Xiao Chen and Li Shi came back, they heard that Qin Gang had become ill from overwork and was bedridden, so they both came to visit.
"Lord Wang, you came in person, how dare Qin Gang be!" Qin Gang struggled to get up.
"General Qin is so loyal to the country that he is seriously injured, shouldn't this king come to visit?" Li Shi smiled, "Besides, if you are still my elder, you should come with affection and reason." ”
"It's a pity that Shangguan abandoned the illness and contracted the wind cold at sea, and now he is also bedridden, but Wen Shanchang went to the north again, and now we don't have any good doctors in Yanyun County, and General Qin is so sick, what should I do?" Xiao Chen's brows were tightly knit, and his expression was deeply worried.
"I'm a relapse of an old injury, it's not a big deal." Qin Gang actually felt that he was much better, but when he heard that the two of them were coming, he simply pretended to be serious.
"No way!" Li Shi shook his head, "General Qin, you are a great hero of our Great Zhou!" You should be the first to recover Tailwind City! If there is a three-long and two-short, I am afraid that my father and grandmother will not spare me...... I see, you should quickly take a boat back to Fengyang City and let the imperial doctors heal and recuperate...... Besides, the emperor also wants to see you. ”
"But there's still a lot of work going on here, and if I'm gone, who's going to take care of it?" Qin Gang was a little hesitant.
"You're sick like this, what else do you want to do?" Li Shi frowned, "It's not too late to talk about everything until you are well...... Xiao Chen! ”
"The minister is here!" Xiao Chen said busily.
"Immediately arrange a sea ship to send General Qin Gang back to Beijing, I see that he is very sick, and he can't be delayed for a moment." Li Shi's words are equivalent to the king's order.
Sounds like a good intention, too.
Qin Gang couldn't help but disobey.